Word: nasalities
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...schools last week were vexed, mortified, bewildered. Gaelic is taught in all the Irish Free State's schools, but its cinemas are made in the U. S. At the beginning of every holiday the children leave school well-behaved, Gaelic-speaking young ladies and gentlemen. They return with nasal voices, a vast vocabulary of U. S. slang and little regard for discipline. When given an order by a teacher, instead of a polite "Ta go mait," or "Deanfaid me e," they answer: "I gotcha, boss." Skepticism is not expressed by a simple "Ni creidim e," but by a derisive...
...nasal, twangy accent of Alfred Emanuel Smith was described by Professor William Cabell Greet of Barnard College as "coastal," typical of speech everywhere on the Eastern seaboard...
...notable) Tenor Tauber surprised everyone by not wearing his monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were not always smooth but there was none of the nasal bleating common to most German tenors. Lieder by Schumann and Schubert he sang with expert tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite softness. The rest of the evening was Lehar, Lehar cheered by an audience which refused to go home until it had heard "Dein ist meinganzes Herz...
...sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made a proud showing for his U. S. opera début, the opening of the Philadelphia opera season...
Hang Brüning! The absence in London of Germany's new Iron Chancellor, pale, nasal Heinrich Brüning, did him no good with German extremists. While the London conference was still in progress, Nationalists streamed into a Berlin hall to hear inflammatory speeches by Deputy Paul Bang (Finance Minister in the brief sinister Kapp "Putsch" government) and Alfred Hugenberg's disciple, Fritz Kleiner. Boomed Bang...